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Phys.org / Researchers tune into Arctic under-ice sounds and test through-ice communication

Beneath the Arctic Ocean is an orchestra featuring natural and human composers, from cracking sea ice and whistling beluga whales to humming shipping-vessel engines. Researchers from MIT Lincoln Laboratory heard some of this ...

Sep 4, 2026
Medical Xpress / Older athletes show aging need not bring major losses in fitness or independence

The poet Dylan Thomas famously wrote, "old age should burn and rave at close of day"—and a high-profile cohort of professional athletes seems to be taking him literally.

Sep 6, 2026
Phys.org / How a plant's refusal to self-pollinate could help India grow more of its own cooking oil

Most people assume plants reproduce through whatever pollen happens to land on them. This is not true. A collaborative research initiative involving the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) has mapped and functionally ...

Sep 3, 2026
Phys.org / In ant nervous systems, gene expression may drive rescue behavior

Why do some ants help nestmates in distress while others don't? A research team from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and Tel Aviv University addressed this question in a new study. The researchers examined worker ...

Sep 4, 2026
Medical Xpress / Cancer cells release antioxidants to prevent immune cells from destroying them

Molecules called reactive oxygen species, which include so-called "free radicals," have long been viewed as damaging byproducts of our body's metabolism—a reason antioxidant supplements have been considered a potential way ...

Sep 3, 2026
Phys.org / Haze emergency grips Malaysian Borneo town

Acrid smoke hung heavily over the Malaysian town of Serian, seeping into homes and cloaking roadside stalls, as residents navigated an air-quality emergency fueled by transboundary haze from Indonesia's raging fires.

Sep 6, 2026
Phys.org / Scientists discover how narwhals grow nature's only straight tusk

Narwhals have nature's only straight tusk, a single tooth up to three meters (10 feet) long, so strange they were sold as magical unicorn horns during the Middle Ages.

Sep 5, 2026
Phys.org / New AI tool maps the hidden universe of small molecules

The human body and its gut microbiome produce thousands of small molecules that shape how the body functions—influencing immunity, metabolism and more. Identifying what those molecules actually are has been one of the biomedical ...

Sep 4, 2026
Medical Xpress / Six-month community program improves attention and diet scores in older adults

As aging populations drive rising global health care demands, finding scalable ways to prevent cognitive decline has become a public health priority. While intensive clinical trials have shown that multidomain lifestyle interventions ...

Sep 6, 2026
Phys.org / Ocean indicators NOAA scientists are tracking for El Niño's arrival on the West Coast

Has El Niño reached the West Coast? You might think it has. After all, the ocean off Southern and Central California is unusually warm. But that warmth is from a recent marine heat wave that predates the current El Niño. ...

Sep 5, 2026
Phys.org / Ultrafast electrons and lasers reveal unexpectedly strong radiation signals in common semiconductors

Detecting radiation is key to technologies ranging from particle accelerators and scientific instruments to medical imaging and security screening. But current detectors must often make trade-offs, providing signals that ...

Sep 4, 2026
Medical Xpress / Gut-derived bacterial molecule may drive severe liver disease

Researchers at the University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital, together with international collaborators, have discovered that a small molecule made exclusively by gut bacteria can actively drive disease in the bile ...

Sep 4, 2026